Everybody Claims to Represent Small Business This Election Season

Hey, we know the small business community is diverse, that small business owners all hold very different viewpoints and come from very different perspectives. That's why it's a bit amazing how many people are trying to sway us this election season. Below are just some of the examples of people who claim to speak for us. But just as small business owners do in their own businesses, we'll think for ourselves come election time. What do you think of the attempt to reach out to small business this election season?

Has the Small Business Administration helped you? The SBA is putting together a video contest for National Small Business Week May 20 through May 26. The video is designed to show the ingenuity of American small business (as well as highlight the help the current administration has offered small business.) The White House Blog

What the other candidate did for one small business. Although before the current U.S. President takes too much credit, just look what his Republican opponent Mitt Romney did inadvertently for one small town business when his inadvertent diss brought customers out in support. Huffington Post

Don't forget, the House of Representatives loves us too. So much so, in fact that the current political majority passed a $46 billion small business tax cut. The bill is intended to help entrepreneurs deduct 20 percent of their income. (Of course, opponents say it's only for rich people.) ABC News

Small business owners against health care? If your political concerns as a small business owners are pretty much confined to the federal Health Insurance Tax scheduled to take effect by 2014 (and specifically on how to stop it, there's even a group just for you. Stop the Hit